"We may not be the biggest, but we're the best," says Quest Technology/Form Physics' ceo, Stanley Zalkind (left). Next to him are Jeffrey L. Reed, vp operations; Johnnie Moon, production manager; Arthur Foster, toolmaker; and Ian Clark, president. Q uest Technology LP, a ceramics custom molder, is...

Figure 1. The Swatch Irony Automatic, which runs on kinetic energy, is just one of the many stainless steel watches offered in the Irony line. I t is generally acknowledged that the Swatch Group, and specifically its manufacturing arm ETA SA Fabriques d'Ebauches, is among the MIM technology leaders...

T he Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) has issued its Materials Standards for Metal Injection Molded Parts, 2000 ed., the first update since its last publication in 1993-94. This update contains a variety of new information including new materials, impact energy values, soft magnetic...

A new technology that uses MIM to rapidly produce mold inserts is said to cut tooling production time by a factor of five to 10 and tool price by half compared to traditional methods for making production molds. Jean-Marc Boéchat, director of MIM Systems Ltd., reported on his company's new...